Working Girl's Guide: #5: Deepfakes on TikTok, canceled summer concerts, and creative applications of hot wax

It’s summer! It’s installment #5! We’re talking cancelled concerts, discounted groceries, and creative applications of hot wax! Let’s get to it.

Don’t Get Caught Up in Counterfeits

I love a dupe as much as the next girl, but apparently counterfeit sellers are using deepfakes of existing influencers/promo videos to sell copies of their products, and just swapping out their face?? Creepy??? Casey Ho (founder of Popflex) came across her own video, which a retailer was using to sell a dupe of a skirt she designed, except with someone else’s face on it. Counterfeit products are nothing new, but this is another level, and it’s giving me a tummy ache.

Make Groceries Affordable Again

Food prices have been climbing to record highs (never thought so much of my $$ would go towards arguably the least sexy food: eggs), but going into summer, all the grocery stores are competing to show the world that they’re the good guy. Target lowered prices on 1500 products this month, Amazon fresh is giving us discounts to the tune of 30% over the summer, and plenty of other retailers are pushing to catch up. PR stint or real?? I’ll believe it when I see it.

Concert Tickets

Remember how right after the pandemic, we couldn’t stop going to concerts? Things are slowing down now (JLo is just one artist who canceled her summer tour), maybe because concerts have gotten outrageously expensive, or perhaps because we’ve become accustomed to Taylor Swift-level productions, and consumers don’t want to shell out hundreds of dollars for anyone else anymore. Or maybe we’re just over that YOLO mentality! To which I say: let this be the summer of sweats + Solo cups full of water (keep reading).

I spent the weekend celebrating a friend who’s off to London for the summer, because who doesn’t love an excuse to celebrate?? We hosted a little daytime banger, complete with balloons and aforementioned red Solo cups full of water, because dishes are hard after a long week, okay?! Will miss her dearly while she’s gone, and rest assured, we’ll probably have the exact same party when she’s back in a couple months.

Last week’s power suit was a little bit $$$, so today we’re getting our budgets back on track with this $88 dress, which is like the lovechild of your favorite leggings and a skirt suit. Sophisticated with kitten heels or sneakers? Check. Stretchy and comfy enough to wear on an early morning flight pre-work trip? Somehow also check. It comes in white and blue too, both also cute, but I’m always a bit wary of light-colored tight dresses like this… has anyone tried it? LMK.

Let’s talk organization. While there’s something to be said for trying every single productivity app / planner / etc. (anyone an iPad girlie?), the busier I get, the more I try not to let optimizing my calendar become an entire job in and of itself. Organization and tasks lists are super personal, so do what works for you, but I’m personally partial to keeping it suuuper simple: I schedule everything in Google calendar, including events/meetings (obviously), but I also use the task feature to schedule personal tasks and anything else I need to complete. I know myself, and I’m just not going to send that birthday text or renew my license at the DMV or drop off returns at the post office if I don’t set aside time for it. Plus, seeing all those checked off tasks at the end of the day feels like getting an email ten minutes before the all-hands that’s it’s actually going to be an email today: satisfying and life-affirming.

You know I’ve got you with the roundup this week! My antics, for your perusal:

And over on the pod, Corp and I answer listener-submitted stories about their companies’ drinking cultures, and brace yourselves, because s*$% gets MESSY (hookups/drunken divulgences/creative application of hot wax). We also get into our favorite (and least favorite) corporate jargon, whether or not you can cancel a meeting due to a hangover, and our tips for managing messy drinking cultures at work. Listen here.

Thanks for reading!